You're the one who has to figure this out
You can't delegate “understand AI” to your team because nobody on the team knows either. The decision sits with you.
The reality
You know AI matters. You're figuring out what it means for your business. That's exactly where we start.
Speed without direction is just expensive confusion.
You've been hearing about AI at every turn
The pressure is building. Competitors might be adopting it. Customers might start expecting it. But nothing you've tried has changed how your business operates.
You don't trust easy promises
You've been cold-emailed by vendors promising to 10x your revenue. Maybe you hired someone who delivered a chatbot nobody uses. You're right to be sceptical.
You know you need to act
This isn’t panic. It’s the slow-building kind of urgency. You know the window is narrowing. You just don’t know what acting looks like.
From a client running a business agent
I'm having to train Jasper, and I'm learning more about my business than I ever thought I would have to. I can just feel myself speeding up as a manager of my own business.
Charlie PidcockSales trainer, Alchymie client
Read Charlie's storyKhali, founder of Alchymie
Who's behind this
The person who builds and runs your agents.
Khali began as a software engineer at ThoughtWorks: eight years across Melbourne, Bangalore, San Francisco, and Sydney. Then part of Vodafone's Digital Leadership Team, leading 100 people across six teams: online sales up 200%, employee engagement from 43% to 63% in six months, NPS from negative to positive in a year. Then trained as a leadership coach and spent years working at the human layer, where technology adoption actually succeeds or fails.
That combination is rare. Most AI consultants either think strategically but don't build, or build but can't shape the architecture around how the people will actually use it. The difference shows up in whether the thing gets adopted, or sits unused in a corner of the business.
About Khali- ThoughtWorks8 years engineering · Melbourne, Bangalore, San Francisco, Sydney
- VodafoneDigital Leadership Team · 100 people, six teams
- Leadership coachYears at the human layer, where adoption succeeds or fails
- AlchymieBuilds and runs the agents himself
How we work
One circle. Drawn again every month.
Every engagement runs the same loop, whether it starts with a single working session or a whole area of your business.
- 01 Map
- 02 Build and train
- 03 Run
- 04 Prove
01
Map
We start with your business, not a technology stack. We find the work that is costing you and the work you never get to: what an agent could own, and what stays human.
- 01
Map
We start with your business, not a technology stack. We find the work that is costing you and the work you never get to: what an agent could own, and what stays human.
- 02
Build and train
We build the agent, train it against real examples from your business, and teach you how to work with it. Approval gates wherever you want a person in the loop.
- 03
Run
We run it for you: monitored, maintained, on our watch. You get the result; we stay accountable for the system.
- 04
Prove
Every month it is tested against real work, and you get a short report of what it did and what changed. Then we point the loop at the next job, or the next opportunity.
The business, running
People hold the judgement. Agents carry the work.
The landscape changed.
The moment we're in
Most business owners haven't updated their map.
- 2Nobel Prizes
awarded to AI research in 2024. The first in history.
- 280×cheaper
to get GPT-3.5-level performance in late 2024 than when ChatGPT launched two years earlier (Stanford AI Index, 2025)
- 16+ hrsof human work
Frontier AI can now complete, on its own, tasks that take a skilled person 16 hours or more, succeeding about half the time. That is past what the leading benchmark can reliably measure (METR, May 2026). In 2019: 2 seconds. In practice: work you would hand a contractor for a day can now be handed to an agent.
- 53%adoption
of working-age US adults were using generative AI within three years. Faster than the PC. Faster than the internet. (Stanford AI Index, 2026)
The moment we're in
The landscape changed. Most business owners haven't updated their map.
- 2Nobel Prizes
awarded to AI research in 2024. The first in history.
- 280×cheaper
to get GPT-3.5-level performance in late 2024 than when ChatGPT launched two years earlier (Stanford AI Index, 2025)
- 16+ hrsof human work
Frontier AI can now complete, on its own, tasks that take a skilled person 16 hours or more, succeeding about half the time. That is past what the leading benchmark can reliably measure (METR, May 2026). In 2019: 2 seconds. In practice: work you would hand a contractor for a day can now be handed to an agent.
- 53%adoption
of working-age US adults were using generative AI within three years. Faster than the PC. Faster than the internet. (Stanford AI Index, 2026)
Your mental model of AI was probably formed in 2022. What exists in 2026 is not an upgrade. It is a different category of capability. And the economics now favour any business, not just those with large tech budgets.
What makes this harder to dismiss than previous technology waves: these agents don't work alone. In early 2026, sixteen AI agents working together, with almost no human direction once they started, built a piece of software so complex it would normally take a team of specialist engineers years. The whole job cost under US$20,000 in computing time. And those 16-plus hours above are what one agent can handle on its own; that figure has been doubling roughly every four months since 2023. Put agents to work in parallel and the capacity multiplies.
The businesses competing well in 2028 are deciding now. The hard part isn't moving fast. It's moving in the right direction.
Why Alchymie
Craft is judgement applied.
Most AI help leaves you a plan or a handover. We leave you agents that keep running. Your business wasn't built on shortcuts. And in a moment when every business is reaching for AI tools, the differentiator is not access. It's understanding. We start with your business, not a technology stack. Understanding it deeply enough to know where AI creates real value, and where it doesn't.
Alchemy was never about turning lead into gold. It was about transformation through understanding: knowing your material deeply enough to reveal what it could become.
That's how we approach your business. Not with a toolkit of AI solutions looking for problems, but with the patience to understand what you've built and the judgement to know how AI can make it better.
Ready?
Ready to start with clarity?
Bring us the job you are sickest of, or the one you never get to. In one conversation we will map what an agent could own, what has to stay human, and what it would be worth. You keep the map either way.
Start with a conversation